News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018, Dr. Gilberto Sanchez, 56, of Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to serve 12 years and 1 month in prison for prescribing unnecessary controlled substances to his patients, committing health care fraud, and laundering money, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: * Law enforcement and bear management staff investigated the incident and determined that an adult female grizzly bear injured the 10-year-old boy from Washington.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, announced that, for the first time, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) has awarded $10 million in anti-terrorism security grants through its Nonprofit Security Grant Program to institutions outside of jurisdictions funded by the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago financial advisor who told clients that a “fat finger" trading error caused major losses to their investments admitted in federal court today that he actually lost all of their funds through poor trading.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration James J. Hunt, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal, New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill, and Superintendent of the New York State Police George P. Beach II announced that a Philadelphia man...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Raymond Erfort has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for cocaine trafficking and firearm crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Damine Alexander Green, 42, of Lexington, pleaded guilty today to the distribution of more than 28 grams of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: WHEN: Monday, Aug. 27, 2018 at 3:00 PM.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: $31 Million Estimated Loss to Victims’ Online Banking Accounts and Credit Cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that Ibrahim Dirweesh, 34, of Atlanta, Georgia, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession of child pornography. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment, a lifetime period of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former church maintenance worker pleaded guilty in federal court today to arson after setting a fire at Concord Cultural Center in Kansas City, Mo., and spray-painting racist graffiti on the front of the adjoining church, Concord Fortress of Hope, in an effort to cover up his burglary.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - Steven Ruschak, 31 years old, of Merrillville, Indiana, was sentenced by District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen on his plea of guilty to possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Aug. 24, 2018, Roman Deon Hellems, Jr., age 23, of Des Moines, appeared before United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose and was sentenced to 96 months in prison for a felon in possession of a firearm charge announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Hellems was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: WILMINGTON, NC - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina today announced that nineteen foreign nationals were charged with, among other crimes, voting by alien for their actions prior to and on November 8, 2016. A twentieth defendant was charged with aiding and abetting a fellow defendant in falsely claiming United States citizenship in order to register to vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man pled guilty yesterday to federal drug trafficking and gun crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Kyle Keith Russell, 22, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute 5 grams or more of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. Stuart praised the investigation conducted by the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Westerly man convicted in 2015 for possession of child pornography and sentenced to 36 months in federal prison was ordered detained today by U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Patricia A. Sullivan on a federal criminal complaint charging him with possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury has convicted a 25-year-old Houston woman for the.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
Release: Dear BRS Stakeholder, The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announces today the deregulation of Nuseed Americas’ canola variety genetically engineered (GE) to contain in its seed increased levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which is an omega-3 ...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 146,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 24, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, NJ- A 25-year-old El Salvadoran fugitive, a member of the notorious gang Mara Salvatrucha, and wanted in his home country for criminal conspiracy, was removed from the U.S. Friday, Aug. 24, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
